Events
Information on our past, current and future events can be found below:
gEneSys gEneSys Autumn School
06 October 2025 09:00 – 10 October 2025 17:30
Venice International University
The gEneSys Autumn School builds upon the project’s outcomes and the new knowledge generated through it to share a vision of energy transition as a socio-technical revolution with relevant social and gender challenges. The course aims at providing fellows from various disciplines - scientists, engineers, economists, sociologists, anthropologist, political scientists, journalists and communicators - with a training opportunity which merges science with society and delivers an overview on the future of energy. The school offers the opportunity of exploring collaboratively the energy transition through a systems thinking approach that connects the spheres involved in this process of change, revealing the deep interconnections between the need to change the way energy is produced and consumed, and the social dynamics inherent in this process.
For more information, please see this page on the Venice International University website.
Joint Conference
22 October 2024 10:00 – 22 October 2024 17:30
Scotland House, Brussels
Integrating Gender Equality Objectives into Energy and Deep Tech Fields for Inclusive and Sustainable Future
This conference brings together two Horizon Europe projects that are promoting integration of gender equality objective into technologically focused solutions to societal challenges. gEneSys tackles gendered power relations in energy transition and NET4Air is building capacity for applying nanoelectronics in the monitoring of air pollution.
The aim of the conference is to report on new research findings produced by the two projects and discuss what lessons can be drawn to advance implementations of the EU policy on mainstreaming gender into research and innovation, and specifically for Horizon Europe and the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027.
Women are significantly underrepresented in both the deep tech and energy transition fields as researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, decision makers, and leaders. The average share of women in the R&I workforce in energy sector companies in the EU27 is 22%. Only 14% of founders in deep tech startups are women. Results from gEneSys suggest that knowledge-making for energy transition is dominated by men and this may impact on what research is prioritised, and how it is communicated and valorised.
The event should be of interest to science policy and decision makers, technical and policy advisers, domain experts, researchers and innovators, and practitioners promoting knowledge for social progress.
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For any questions or queries, please email the gEneSys project coordinator at genesys@irpps.cnr.it.
Agenda
EVENT STARTS AT 10 AM
Please download the event flyer PDF which containst the latest agenda.
Speakers
- Lucio Pisacane, CNR IRPPS
- Carmen Moldovan, IMT
- Luis Farina Busto, ERCEA, Working group Gender and Diversity
- Marta Wysoczynska, Senior Policy Adviser in the Coordination and Analytics Team, EIC Department, EISMEA
- Oriane Gilloz, Policy Officer, DG RTD - Gender Sector
- Joana Simão Costa, Legal Officer, DG Energy
- Jeanne Lenders, Policy Officer, DG Employment - Fair green digital transition
- Maria Camilla Fraudatario, CNR IRPPS: “What have we learned from literature about the nexus between gender and energy”
- Antonio De Nicola, ENEA: “Gender gaps in knowledge communities”
- Yara Evans, Imperial College: “Gender gaps in SSH recommendations”
- Tadeusz Rudek, Jagiellonian University: “Gender gaps in textbooks and curricula”
- Cloe Mirenda, CNR IRPPS: “NRRPs gaps in promoting a just and gender-sensitive energy transition”
- Nana Klutse, AIMS: “Gaps and omissions in EU-AI cooperation on R&I” (recorded speech)
- Toshiyasu Ichioka,Director RIKEN Europe Office: “Case studies for Europe and beyond”
- Eefje Vandamme, Intellectual Matters BC: “Gender dimension in tech innovation”
- Simona Aracri, CND INM: “A route to equality, diversity and inclusivity in Soft Robotics”
- Mircea Modreanu, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork:“Addressing gender dimension in deep tech institutions”
- Clara-Mihaela Ionescu, Ghent University, ERC Grantee: “Sustainability of gender dimension”
- Clemens Striebing, Fraunhofer, CERRI
- Maria Losurdo, CNR ICMATE
- Elizabeth Pollitzer, Portia (MODERATOR)
- Martina Schraudner, Technical University Berlin (MODERATOR)
- Melanie Timpel, CNR IMEM (MODERATOR)
- Sabrina Presto, CNR ICMATE (MODERATOR)
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gEneSys Webinar
03 June 2024 10:30 – 03 June 2024 12:30
Webinar: Integrating research evidence on gender-energy nexus to achieve just and equitable outcomes in the African / European energy transition efforts
To maximise the contribution of Horizon Europe projects to create just, equitable and socially acceptable transition to carbon-neutrality for all, the EU LEAP-RE (Long-Term Joint European Union - African Union Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy) and the gEneSys (Transforming Gendered Interrelations of Power and Inequalities in Transition Pathways to Sustainable Energy Systems) projects hosted a joint webinar on 3rd June 2024 at 10:30 – 12:00 CEST. The webinar used the format of roundtable discussion with speakers from the two projects sharing lessons from the gEneSys research and LEAP-RE implementation projects on the opportunities to incorporate gender - and social-equality benefits into energy transition goals and pathways.
Panel speakers:
- Marine Cornelis: executive director and founder of Next Energy Consumer, member of LEAP-RE on the AU/EU energy ecosystem
- Elli Stepanovic: Senior project manager of The Austrian Research Promotion Agency, representing the role of funder and supporting LEAP-RE partnership design
- Isabella Nardini: Manager of International Affairs, Fraunhofer IEG, involved in LEAP-RE activities on geothermal and capacity-building
- Nana Ama Browne Klutse, Professor of Physics, Vice Chair IPCC Working Climtecpreneur, Climate Change Researcher, member of gEneSys
- Rocio Diaz-Chavez, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Policy of Imperial College London, Member of gEneSys
- Tadeusz Rudek, Research Assistant, Jagielonian University, member of gEneSys
Moderators:
- Lucio Pisacane, Italian National Research Council CNR IRPPS - gEneSys Coordinator
- Léonard Lévêque, LEAP-RE Programme Coordinator
Recording from the webinar will be available in due course.
For further information, please download the information PDF.
As always, if you have any questions, please email the project coordiantor at genesys@irpps.cnr.it.
gEneSys Participatory Workshop
06 September 2023 09:00 – 08 September 2023 15:30
Universita di Trento
gEneSys introduced a participatory workshop on decision making for fair and just energy transition, at the Energy, Environment and Societies in Crises ESA RN12 mid-term and Energy &Society Network 6th international joint conference in Trento, 6-8 September 2023.
gEneSys at the 23rd Gender Summit
01 June 2023 09:00 – 02 June 2023 15:30
Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra
Lucio Pisacane the gEneSys Coordinator took part as Panel Speaker in the 23rd Gender Summit - Africa, 1–2 June 2023, on the theme of Africa’s Energy Transition Pathways and the visions of the Green Deal through the gender lens. The work of the project was also disseminated as part of the GS23 Exhibition.
For more information on GS23, please see the event website here
Public Introduction Event
08 March 2023 10:00 – 08 March 2023 13:00
Sala Convegni- CNR Piazzale Aldo Moro, Rome
This event introduces the new Horizon Europe gEneSys project to the public, with a welcome by Anna Sobczak, Director-General for Energy and European University Institute and a statement on sustainability perspectives for Energy Transition by Mara Cossu, representative of the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security. The session will include a round-table-discussion with Consortium Partners reflecting on the context in which gEneSys will operate such as research challenges, gendered innovation approaches, environmental concerns, actions by industry, the need for interdisciplinary training, and consequences for climate change.
For more information, please see the event flyer here
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